The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-11-02

Circus Home Again" Cleveland is
represented as the elephant, Curtis,
dressed in eastern costume, as the head
worshiper and Dan. Lamont as the
owner of the circus. The other mem
bers of the troupe are grouped about in
picturesque attitude, and the CYCLIC
pedia, with crank attached, from which
Cleveland ground out his speeches, is
labeled For Sale"
IN the current number of the Ne,c
Engldnder Mr.. Joseph b. Walker, a
leading agriculturist, gives statistics
which show very conclusively that
within the last decade depopulation
has been checked in New England,
and in some sections there has been
decided revival of agricultural pursuits.
Farming land is generally advancing in
price, and there is evidently brighter
prospect for the prosperity of the
agricultural sections of New England.
THE n. Y. wishes it understood that it has a
monopoly of defending the prosecuted farm
ers and knocking the railroad managers into
smithereens, and all other papers will please
stand aside 1t won't even allow the CON
cession demanded by the hen-pecked hus-
! band who, driven under the bed by his ter
magant wife, proclaimed that as long as
he had the spirit of a man he would
peek. We admit that we have
laughed little at the Rural VermOnter.
But every one will admit that there is some
thing mirth-provoking in the bray of a
donkey.-,T. JohnSbury Republican.
This is cruelty to animals.
In his speech at Geneva, N. Y, the
other evening, Warner Miller made
remark which took good deal of wind
out of the third party's sails. This was
the remark: "' You prohibitionists
complain that the republican party does
not submit prohibition amendment to
the people. Well, we intended doing
so, but the very year we would have
accomplished it you prohibitionists de-
feated five or six republican candidates
for the legislature and we could not
pass the prohibition amendment"
THE Tribune says of Dakota: "The
territory has population larger than
that of Delaware and Florida COM
bined. These two states elect three
representatives to make laws for us all +,
have four senators in the United States
senate and cast seven of the electoral
votes by which President Cleveland was
chosen. A larger population in Dakota
has no power in the senate or house to
make laws for the country, no power in
electing a president, and solely because
a majority of that population are sup
posed to be republicans"
THE funniest incident connected
with the presidential trip was the mis-
taking of the reporters train for the
simon-pure article on the run from
Nashville to Chattanooga. The train
bearing the newspaper reporters ran
ahead of the presidents train, and as
the people along the line were not APP
prised of the fact the mistake was
quite natural. AT Chattanooga can
mons doomed, flags waved, bands
played and the crowd shouted them
selves hoarse over the reporters before
the state of the case could be generally
known.
IT will be to the honor of the name
and the institutions of the United
States when both of the great parties
nominate for the presidency men fitted
by the range of their requirements, the
power of their character and their con-
spicuous and representative service to
the political organizations to which
they belong to be the chiefs of party
and of the republic. The United States
is an old enough country to be run by
craftsmanship and not by blind luck,
and it is creditable neither to the in
telligence nor to the patriotism of
Americans that slipshod, amateur poll
ticians should be supposed to be
stronger at the polls than experienced
statesmen.-Ne,c York San.
If Mrs. Mary A. Livermore should
ever read the compliments now be-
slowed upon her by the press subsi-
died by the saloon interest, and which
press has had nothing but scurrilous
contempt for woman suffrage and its
advocates for a generation past, she
would have reason to eXclaim, " God
save me from such defenders and
eulogists." She has gone West on a
long lecture tour and may never know
the joy that reigns among the devotees
of the saloons over her criticism of the
republican party of Massachusetts be-
cause it failed to submit the question
of prohibitory amendment to the peo-
pie through the action of the third-party
prohibitionists in electing democratic
ators.-COncOrd Monitor.
COLLECTOR SMALLEY has been in
terviewed again, and favors civil serv-
ice reform so long as it rebounds to
the advantage of the democratic office
holders; thinks that the democratic
national committee will meet not earlier
than February odd, and that the next
convention will be held either at Chi
cago or st. Louis; believes in late
convention and short campaign; finds
the feeling among western democrats
almost unanimous for Ceveand's
denomination; that public sentiment
among western republicans is strong
and universal for Blaine, and he be-
lieves Mr.. Blaine can receive the NOM
nation if he desires it; and asserts
that the democrats propose to give the
country four years more of Cleveland
and then four years of David b. Hill.
SPEAKING of the action of the United
States supreme court on the constitu-
tionality of the prohibition laws in
X apsas and Toua tho Dntlon1 JJo.nIJ